Sell your Galaxy S24 Plus for cash

Capacity, carrier and condition all move it, and condition moves it most. A 512GB unlocked in Good condition is $255. Drop the same phone to Fair and it is $153. A 256GB with a cracked screen is $45. The quote box at the top of the page gives you the figure for your exact one.

Size settles it in your hand: the S24+ is 6.7 inches and 196 grams, the Galaxy S24 is 6.2 inches and 167. Side by side there is no mistaking them. Alone, they look identical.

So use the screen. Settings, Display, Screen resolution. If that menu is there, you have the S24+, because its panel can run at 3120 by 1440. The regular S24 is a 1080p phone and Samsung does not give it the menu at all. Storage is a second check: the S24 came in 128GB, the S24+ never did.

Settings, About phone, Model number is the answer that cannot be argued with. SM-S926U or SM-S926U1 is the S24+. SM-S921U is the S24.

This is the harder one, because both are 6.7 inches with three rear lenses. The Galaxy S24 FE is the heavier of the two at 213 grams against 196, its bezels are visibly thicker, and its screen is 1080p, so it has no Screen resolution menu either.

It matters to your wallet. The two phones are not close in price, and quoting the wrong one only delays things, because we grade and pay on what actually arrives. Settings, About phone, Model number: SM-S926U is the S24+, SM-S721U is the FE.

Almost certainly not. Every Galaxy S24+ leaves the factory running at 2340 by 1080 rather than the 3120 by 1440 the panel is capable of, and most owners never change it. That is a setting, not damage, and it has no effect on what we pay.

Settings, Display, Screen resolution, pick QHD+ 3120 x 1440, then Apply. It is also the state you want the phone in before you look for burn-in, because a lower resolution at low brightness hides a faint ghost.

Yes. Burn-in grades a Galaxy S24+ Faulty, no matter how well the rest of it works. On a 512GB the gap between Good and Faulty is $255 against $51, so it is not a small call.

Check it properly rather than squinting at your home screen. Full resolution, brightness all the way up, a plain white image filling the screen, and a room with the lights off. Tilt the phone and look across the glass rather than straight at it. A shadow of the clock, the status bar or the keyboard is burn-in. One bright dot is a dead pixel and that is a different fault. A slight blue or green cast when you look from the side is how OLED behaves and costs you nothing.

You can, at the Faulty price. Any crack or chip on the front, the back or a lens cover grades Faulty even when the phone is working perfectly. A 512GB in that state is $51 and a 256GB is $45.

A scratch is not a crack, and the difference is worth money. Run a fingernail slowly across the glass. If it catches and drops into a line, treat it as a crack. If it slides over the mark, it is a scratch, and a scratched phone with no breaks in the glass is still Fair or better.

Yes, and the price is the Faulty one. Our rule on Samsung phones is a principle rather than a list: if something on the phone does not do its job, the phone is Faulty. A side key that no longer clicks, a fingerprint reader that will not read, a crackling loudspeaker, a mic nobody can hear you through, a camera stuck out of focus, all of them land in the same place.

Give it five minutes before you decide. Call someone and listen at both ends of the phone. Record a voice memo and play it back. Press every button. Type in each corner of the screen. Charge it from a wall plug. If everything answers, you are not in Faulty territory and you should not grade yourself into it.

There is not. We do not apply a battery percentage rule to Galaxy phones, so there is no health figure to go and find, and a battery that is tired after two years does not cost you a grade.

A battery that has genuinely failed is a different story, but it gets caught by the ordinary rule about things that do not work. If the phone dies at 40 percent, refuses to charge, or the back has started to lift because the cell has swollen, that is a fault and faults grade Faulty.

No, and this is the only situation where we have to say no to a damaged phone. A dead phone cannot be tested, so any price we named would be a guess, and your photos, messages and saved passwords cannot be cleared off it before it changes hands. Neither of those is something we are willing to wave through.

Before you accept it is dead, plug it into a wall charger with a cable you have seen work this week and leave it half an hour. If it stays black, send it anyway on the same free label. We wipe it to Department of Defense standards and recycle it at no charge, or we ship it back to you for nothing. Your call, either way.

Not until the balance is gone. A phone with carrier installments still running against it, or one on a lease, is a phone under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase those. Finish the payments, check your account shows the phone as yours outright, and it prices exactly like the ones in the table above.

No. A locked phone cannot be bought at any grade, and there are three different locks that can catch you.

Google account lock, also called FRP, is the common one. Sign out of your Google account first, then reset the phone from Settings, General management, Reset, Factory data reset. That order matters. Reset it while still signed in and the phone asks the next person for your password, which means it comes back to you unpaid. The erase your device page walks through it.

The second is the Knox counter. If the phone has been rooted or had custom firmware flashed onto it, Knox trips and cannot be reset, and we cannot buy it. The third is the IMEI. Reported lost, reported stolen, blacklisted or carrier blocked all fail. Dial *#06# to see your IMEI, and check it before you commit rather than after.

The carrier does. Unlocked is the best of the five options on this model at every capacity and every grade, and the spread is not trivial. A Flawless 512GB unlocked is $290. The same phone on AT&T is $183, on Verizon $122, and on T-Mobile $162. If the phone is paid off, ask your carrier to release it before you sell.

The color does not. Onyx Black, Marble Gray, Cobalt Violet, Amber Yellow, Jade Green, Sandstone Orange and Sapphire Blue all pay the same. Capacity, carrier and condition are the whole list.

Sign out of your Google account first. Settings, then your name at the top, then Google, and remove the account. Then Settings, General management, Reset, Factory data reset. It asks you to confirm and the phone restarts as if it were new.

Your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and they cannot be recovered. We wipe every device again to Department of Defense standards when it arrives, including the ones we end up recycling, but doing it yourself first is what clears the account lock.

No. A carrier trade-in gives you credit against a bill, released a little at a time over 24 or 36 months, and only if you commit to a plan or a new phone alongside it. Leave that carrier early and the rest of the credit leaves with you.

A Buyback is a purchase. We buy the Galaxy S24+ on its own, pay cash, and you spend it wherever you like. Nothing to sign, no line to keep, and the price is locked for 14 days while the phone travels to us.

You choose when you check out. A gift card is emailed and comes out roughly 3 percent ahead of the others, because the brands add a bonus on top. PayPal is instant, minus the 2.99 percent PayPal takes. A bank transfer lands in 2 to 4 days and a check in 3 to 5. Whichever you pick goes out the day your phone passes inspection. Sealed Brand New phones are the exception and are paid through PayPal only.

Worth knowing before you pick a grade. Brand New and Flawless pay exactly the same on both capacities of this phone, and Brand New is the only grade tied to PayPal. Unless yours is genuinely still sealed, grading it Flawless costs you nothing and keeps all four payment methods open to you.